Edit Author Slug

This plugin allows an Admin to change the author slug (a.k.a. – nicename), without having to actually enter the database. You can also change the Author Base (the ‘/author/’ portion of the author URLs). Two new fields will be added to your Dashboard. The “Edit Author Slug” field can be found under Users > Your Profile or Users > Authors & Users (Users > Users in WP 3.0). The “Author Base” field can be found under Settings > Edit Author Slug. This allows you to craft the perfect URL structure for you Author pages. For your convenience, an Author Slug column is added to make it easier to determine if one needs to change the Author Slug.

FAQ

Q. Why can’t I edit my Author Slug?A. Make sure you are an admin, or have been assigned the edit_users or edit_author_slug capability.

Q. Why isn’t my new Author Slug working?A. While I’ve made every attempt to prevent this, I may have missed a spot or two. First things first, go to Settings > Permalinks and click “Save Changes.” You don’t need to actually need to make any changes for this to work. Hopefully, this should kick your new Author Slug into gear.

If this doesn’t work, make sure you don’t have any slug conflicts from other posts/pages/plugins/permalink setting/etc. If you’re still experiencing the issue, feel free to post a support request in the forums.

1.0

First pass at unit test (only checks if the plugin is installed, for now)

0.9.6

Fixed loading of translation files. Looks in wp-content/plugins/edit-author-slug/languages. If you’re running 3.7+ (and you are… aren’t you?), it will fall back to wp-content/languages/plugins if a proper localization can’t be found in the edit-author-slug folder.

0.9.5

Fixed instances where the Author Base wouldn’t change, or would result in a 404

0.9.4

Update readme references to plugin settings

Fix some copy pasta in settings

Update screenshots

0.9.3

Quickly caught a few things I missed, so this release was skipped. See 0.9.4 for changes

0.9.2

Fix issue where any profile information other than the Author Slug could not be updated

Minor code improvement

0.9.1

Add ‘Settings’ link to plugins list table

0.9

Allow Author Slug to be automatically created/updated based on a defined structure

Switched to using the Settings API, which also means that all options moved to the Settings > Edit Author Slug page